We stopped eating
meat many years ago. During the course of a Sunday lunch we happened to look out
of the kitchen window at our young lambs playing happily in the fields. Glancing
down at our plates, we suddenly realised we were eating the leg of an animal who
had until recently been playing in a field herself. We looked at each other and
said: "Wait a minute, we love these sheep-they're such gentle creatures. So why
are we eating them?" It was the last time we ever did.
-- Paul
and Linda McCartney
If
slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian. We feel better
about ourselves and better about the animals, knowing we're not contributing to
their pain.
-- Paul
and Linda McCartney
| Intellectually,
human beings and animals may be different, but it's pretty obvious that animals
have a rich emotional life and that they feel joy and pain. It's easy to forget
the connection between a hamburger and the cow it came from. But I forced myself
to acknowledge the fact that every time I ate a hamburger, a cow had ceased to
breathe and moo and walk around.
-- Moby
There are viable (and
usually better) alternatives to the use of animals for food, sport, clothing,
& experimentation. I beg you to discontinue any actions that might cause or condone
animal torture, abuse, or destruction.
-- Moby
|  |
"Men
dig their graves with their own teeth and die by those fated instruments more
than the weapons of their enemies. "
-- Thomas Moffett
 | The
Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense
of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable.
--
Thomas More |
There's
so many vegetarian foods now that are available at the market . The same with
drive-throughs. Now, a lot of them serve veggie burgers just like the restaurants
are doing. So, it's really very easy.
-- Kevin Nealon
When
I was old enough to realize all meat was killed, I saw it as an irrational way
of using our power, to take a weaker thing and mutilate it. It was like the way
bullies would take control of younger kids in the schoolyard.
-- River Phoniex
But
for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh, we deprive a soul of the sun and
light and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world
to enjoy."
-- Plutarch
"For
as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows
the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love."
-- Pythagoras
As
long as Man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will
never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill
each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and
love."
-- Pythagoras
 |
"It seems disingenuous
for the intellectual elite of the first world to dwell on the subject of too many
babies being born in the second- and third-world nations while virtually ignoring
the over-population of cattle and the realities of a food chain that robs the
poor of sustenance to feed the rich a steady diet of grain-fed meat."
-- Jeremy
Rifkin |
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